How to save the old that’s worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about.
JOHN GALSWORTHYThe beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language… equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation – in four words, the emanicipation of women.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Love of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies.
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Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
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Justice is a machine that, when some one has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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Matters change and morals change; men remain.
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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Take modern courtships! They resulted in the same thing as under George the Second, but took longer to reach it, owing to the motor-cycle and the standing lunch.
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Love! Beyond measure – beyond death – it nearly kills. But one wouldn’t have been without it.
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It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.
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Wealth is a means to an end, not the end itself. As a synonym for health and happiness, it has had a fair trial and failed dismally.
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done
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